Absolutely wonderful to see so many people out to launch these books into the world!!! ❤️ I am filled with so much gratitude for everyone! This book would not exist without the encouragement and support of so many! It takes a village! And what a beautiful village it is!❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Thank you to Gerry Smyth for taking my poem for the The Irish Times which appears today - unfortunately, the final line of the poem was not printed - it is:

'in the search for you, we will gift touch, find our cure.'

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Great celebration of the latest The Gallery Press titles tonight at Hodges Figgis - especially delighted to see the debut volume from UCD English Studies creative writing graduate Kelly Michels - such dark and beautiful work #IrishPoetry

On publication day Micheál McCann ruminates on his debut collection, Devotion, and reflects on what it means to love someone, to be gay and to be Irish irishtimes.com/culture/books/… Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Ireland Hodges Figgis #newirishpoetry The Irish Times

Wonderful forthcoming book from Four Courts Press, 'Visualizing the Celtic Revival: The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe', edited by Róisín Kennedy 📚

(Love the Lily Yeats embroidery cover image)

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Thank you to Kimberly Campanello for writing about my poem ‘a sound a twig a nest a bird’ in her essay on The Irish Long Poem in the current issue of LongPoemMag. It was a pleasure to be at the launch in London on Saturday - to read the poem & to listen to so many wonderful others.

Emma Donoghue - About The Author ✨

Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical, most recently The Pull of the Stars), as well as drama for screen and stage.

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'When I like a story it’s because it does something … a blow to the chest.'
So grieved to hear that Alice Munro has died. She was the best.

NEI innovates its range of activities this year with a digital lecture. Not to be missed! Shaun Richards on Stage Sets and “theatrical nationhood” in the Irish Literary Revival. May 28, 2pm 🇧🇷/6pm ireland 🇮🇪 PPGI UFSC ▶️ ppgi.posgrad.ufsc.br/arquivo/11854#… Ireland in Brazil Global Irish ☘

Congratulations to Farmgate Café National Poetry Award Overall Winner, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award Winner, Kevin Graham
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Munster Literature Centre Poetry Ireland The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
#farmgatepoetryaward #southwordpoetryaward

A closer look at The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr which was published by Coach House Books and nominated for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award by Vancouver Public Library. ✨

Find out more: loom.ly/0OePCkc

Is there any poetry by Irish women (in English or Irish) written following their institutionalisation?
I've been reading Alda Merini, an Italian poet who had a triumphant second poetry life after 20ish years in an asylum, and wondering who are Ireland's Aldas?

My partner Karl O’Hanlon gives a family perspective on the Official History in the context of the Legacy Act in this weekend’s Irish Times.

Victims won’t be talked over or ignored.

Thanks to Marie Coleman for asking difficult questions.

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Alexis Wright reads an excerpt from her book Praiseworthy, one of the six shortlisted titles for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. ✨

The catalogue has arrived, the installation is nearly complete, and it’s looking fabulous.

‘Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920’ Tate opens next week!

Do I know any #library #LIS folks who have started a 'reading for pleasure/leisure' collection in a college/uni library? Bonus if it's somewhere that doesn't teach English lit, double bonus if it's an art college, *triple* bonus if it was developed in collab with students!

Jonathan Escoffery reads an excerpt from If I Survive You, one of the six shortlisted titles for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award.

I originally commissioned Sara Baume’s Handmade Readymade Souvenirs for gorse No. 10 (2018) as a set of postcards depicting her crafted Duchamp miniatures. In IS THIS A POEM? we include the original figurines as well as the postcards. Visit now: moli.ie/exhibitions/is…

Some beauty at this dark hour

Lord look: love for me, they have stood me awestruck, bright, a child in the bell-tower of beauty -

Seán Hewitt -

✨Next up is Barcelona Poetry Festival 2024 🌿On 17 May I'll join Mar Grimalt of Mallorca for an evening of music & poetry✨Thanks to my Catalan translator Marta Pera Cucurell & curator Maria Callís. We are making a beautiful thing together! #poetryacrossborders barcelona.cat/barcelonapoesi…